Advancing Field of Transplantation: Lifetime Honor for Dr. Gonwa
The American Society of Transplantation (AST) awarded its highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, to Thomas Gonwa, M.D. at the recent American Transplant Congress in Boston. The Lifetime Achievement Award honors a senior investigator whose work has advanced the field of transplantation. Dr. Gonwa came to Mayo Clinic in 2001, after leading renal and liver transplant [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - June 12, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic First to Implant Device to Solve Fecal Incontinence
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A clinical team on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus is the first to offer four patients with long-term fecal incontinence a new and potentially long-lasting treatment — a small band of interlinked magnetic titanium beads on a titanium string that successfully mimics the function of the anal sphincter. At this point, Mayo Clinic is [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - June 6, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Three Mayo Clinic Campuses Recognized by Practice Greenhealth for Environmental Efforts
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic campuses in Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin have been awarded for their sustainability efforts by Practice Greenhealth, a national organization dedicated to reducing the impact health care institutions have on the environment. Mayo Clinic’s campus in Rochester, Minnesota, and Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, each received the 2016 [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - May 19, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Way to Prevent Accumulation of Amyloid Plaque, a Hallmark of Alzheimer ’s Disease
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic researchers led a laboratory study that found a new way to prevent the accumulation of amyloid plaque – a key feature of Alzheimer’s disease – by eliminating a class of molecules called heparan sulfates that form on brain cells. “Just as a carpet covers a floor and can hold dirt, molecules [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - March 30, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Way to Prevent Accumulation of Amyloid Plaque, a Hallmark of Alzheimer’s Disease
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic researchers led a laboratory study that found a new way to prevent the accumulation of amyloid plaque – a key feature of Alzheimer’s disease – by eliminating a class of molecules called heparan sulfates that form on brain cells. “Just as a carpet covers a floor and can hold dirt, molecules [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - March 30, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic ’s Colon Cancer Awareness Campaign Wins ASGE Award
Promoting the use of colonoscopy through visual graphics, a team of gastroenterologists on Mayo Clinic ’s Florida campus has won the Community Outreach Award from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). The award is for designing an infographic that grabs readers’ attention in a manner that is easy to understand and effective in promoting colorectal [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - March 29, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic’s Colon Cancer Awareness Campaign Wins ASGE Award
Promoting the use of colonoscopy through visual graphics, a team of gastroenterologists on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus has won the Community Outreach Award from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). The award is for designing an infographic that grabs readers’ attention in a manner that is easy to understand and effective in promoting colorectal [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - March 29, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Invests $100 Million in Destination Medical Center in the Southeast
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Advancing its position as the premier medical destination center for health care in the Southeast, Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida will invest $100 million in major construction projects building on its 150-year history of transforming health care and the patient experience. This summer, Mayo Clinic will begin constructing an innovative destination medical [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - March 28, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Florida Completes 3000 Liver Transplants
The liver transplant team at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, recently completed the 3,000th transplant since the liver program started in 1998. Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus is only the seventh transplant center in the country to complete 3,000 adult liver transplants. Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus has one of the largest liver transplant programs in the country. [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - March 27, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Drug Combo Shuts Down Stem Cells, Tumor Growth in Lung Cancer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus have shut down one of the most common and lethal forms of lung cancer by combining the rheumatoid arthritis drug auranofin with an experimental targeted agent. The combination therapy worked in a laboratory study to stop lung adenocarcinoma associated with mutation of the KRAS gene. The [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - March 14, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Nanotechnology Lab Opens in Florida to Research, Apply Minute Materials to Cancer Care
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — With support from the state of Florida, Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus has opened a state-of-the-art laboratory for nanotechnology research, an emerging field of science that studies and applies materials that are the size of an atom. The laboratory is a key part of Mayo Clinic’s new Translational Nanomedicine Program. The goal is to [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - March 10, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
New Technique Offers Closed-chest Repair of Heart Valve Leak
The vast majority of heart valve surgeries are successful; however in a small number of cases, a leak occurs adjacent to the valve. This leak allows blood to flow backwards, which can create symptoms like shortness of breath, fatigue, breakdown of blood cells and, sometimes, bleeding. There’s a new, less-invasive option for patients who’ve developed a postsurgical leak [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - March 1, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Surgery and Stenting Safe, Effective Lowering Long-Term Risk of Stroke
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Stenting and surgery are equally effective at lowering the long-term risk of stroke from a narrowed carotid artery, according to results of CREST – a 10-year, federally funded clinical trial led by researchers at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida. The results are being published today online in the New England Journal [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - February 18, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Jacoby Center for Breast Health Opens in Florida
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus today announced the opening of the Robert and Monica Jacoby Center for Breast Health, which was funded by a $5 million gift from Robert E. and Monica Jacoby of Ponte Vedra, Florida. The new 16,000-square-foot multidisciplinary breast center offers patients a comprehensive array of diagnostic, treatment and after-care [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - January 27, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Minute: Clip to Repair Mitral Valve Leak
The chance of experiencing mitral valve leakiness, also called mitral valve regurgitation, increases with age. That means some patients are too old or weak for open heart surgery to fix a leak. Now there's a way to repair the problem without opening the chest. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Jeff Olsen talks with an interventional cardiologist about [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Florida News - January 18, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
